After finishing the most difficult year for Canadian equity markets since the Great Depression, investors felt nervous about 2009, and rightfully so. We are currently in the midst of the worst financial crisis in 80 years, which has led to a profound global economic slowdown and recessions for many of the world’s developed nations. Equity gains have been hard to come by, access to financing has been difficult or expensive and investor confidence is in need of resuscitation. In other words, there were few positive catalysts to jumpstart 2009 as we finished off 2008.

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